Due to the genius of the great Russian poet Pushkin, this tale has become known to children Read More »
Tag Archives: Soviet Union
Great Citizen / Velikiy grazhdanin (1938) Fridrikh Ermler, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Ivan Bersenev, Oleg Zhakov
In the guise of a character named Chakov, Ermler reconstructs in his epic the achievement Read More »
Unfinished Story / Neokonchennaya povest (1956) Fridrikh Ermler, Elina Bystritskaya, Sergey Bondarchuk, Sofiya Giatsintova
The local doctor Yelizaveta Maximovna sees and restores to health lots and lots of patients. Read More »
Peasants / Krestyane (1935) Fridrikh Ermler, Pyotr Aleynikov, Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina, Nikolay Bogolyubov
The struggle of farmers against the “kulaks” on collective farms. Read More »
And Nothing More / I nichego bolshe (1988) Aleksandr Sokurov, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle
One of 5 early documentaries Sokurov made that were suppressed: Musical montage Read More »
A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines / Chelovek s bulvara Kaputsinov (1987) Alla Surikova, Andrey Mironov, Aleksandra Yakovleva-Aasmyae, Mikhail Boyarskiy
Mr Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph. Read More »
The Story of the Voyages / Skazka stranstviy (1983) Aleksandr Mitta, Andrey Mironov, Tatyana Aksyuta, Lev Durov
In a medieval fantasy kingdom, two orphans, May and his sister Martha, live in poverty. Read More »
Belshazzar’s Feast, or Night with Stalin / Piry Valtasara, ili noch so Stalinym (1989) Yuriy Kara, Aleksey Petrenko, Aleksandr Feklistov, Evgeniy Evstigneev
A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin Read More »
Twelve Chairs / 12 stulev (1971) Leonid Gayday, Archil Gomiashvili, Sergey Filippov, Mikhail Pugovkin
A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. Read More »
Poet (1957) Boris Barnet, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Izolda Izvitskaya, Sergey Dvoretskiy
The Bolsheviks try to retake a Russian city from tsarist and French forces in the aftermath of the Revolution. Read More »